PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Tala, the consumer lending app in emerging markets, announced Monday (Oct. In a press release , Tala said the undisclosed investment from PayPal will help the company bring visibility and access to underserved regions in emerging markets across the world. 22) a strategic investment from PayPal.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

We’re also a pure-play technology company, designed to support banks [that] want to offer lending products, but … either can’t or won’t dedicate hundreds of millions to building the capacity,” he said. Avant launched its first bank partnership with Alabama-based Regions Bank in 2016, using its SaaS product.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

For small businesses, expansion is key, and expansion needs capital. In a partnership formed recently with Puerto Rico’s Oriental Bank, Biz2Credit said late last month that it has begun offering its digital lending platform to the bank’s commercial clients. 500,000 in the United States, with terms of three to five years.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 30, 2016

Last week, I participated in a Finextra webinar on the topic of “Connected Credit and Compliance for Lending Growth” with panelists from ING, Vertus Partners, Misys and Credits Vision. Cost of compliance. Changing client expectations. Competition from new entrants.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Not one of the four alternative lending startups that secured investments this week were from the U.S. Alternative Lending. Late last week, South Africa’s LulaLend brought some rare attention to the nation’s alternative lending space. There’s talk that alternative finance is dead. Well, in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

With more than $200 million in venture capital funding landing with B2B FinTechs this week, investors had their eyes set on a variety of pain points in corporate finance. Small business finserv was a popular target this week, with startups securing funding for their SMB banking, lending and accounting tools. Lendingkart.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

Alternative lending was the golden child among investors around 2015, but lately, the industry seems to have fallen out of favor thanks to regulatory uncertainty and questions over the viability of some business models. Alternative Lending. This week alone saw two examples of those concerns in action: One U.S. lawmaker, Rep.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

Soon after Lending Club revealed its ex-CEO may have artificially inflated the company’s lending volumes, the U.S. Find out which alt lenders secured $77 million in venture capital, as well as the other startups across the U.S., Alternative Lending. Commercial Banking. D3 Banking. Lendingkart.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Lending Tech With Almost Steady Grades (Even With Rough Semesters). Mortgage services provider ICE acquired mortgage services provider Black Knight bringing together the two largest providers in the space.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

It’s a self-perpetuating scenario that keeps barriers to capital in place. In a recent conversation with PYMNTS, Raghav Mathur, head of data science and analytics at Singapore-based Grab Financial Group , discussed the opportunities in data technology that can address the region’s most pressing SMB lending needs.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2019

B-North wants to disrupt the £154 billion UK business lending market. The majority of SME lending is via the big High Street banks and our experience shows they often use outdated ‘legacy’ systems, rigid lending policies, and faceless, centralized processing centers. percent in equity at a £14,247,942 ($18.7 million ($1.97

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

As reported, iwoca , a small business lender focused on online lending (with loans up to 250,000 pounds) said it raised 150 million pounds in debt and equity financing (where the division was 20 million pounds of equity financing and with the remainder as debt), as per reports Monday (Feb. As Yahoo Finance U.K. FinTech Efforts in Estonia.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

This week’s B2B Venture Capital roundup is all about data. With a total of $388 million raised this week, newly funded startups are deploying an array of data analytics technologies to address B2B finance friction. Catch up on the latest investment rounds below. Working to wield the opportunity of Open Banking in the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Nuvemshop , a Latin American alternative to Shopify, has raised $30 million in a venture capital round as it tries to boost business, according to reports. The four intended to start a new marketplace software product for the Latin America region.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

landed on the board, too, as alternative lending, small business banking, back-office financial management and accounts receivable technology enticed backers. Challenger bank Yelo, operating in India, raised an undisclosed sum from Matrix Partners India, Omidyar Network, Flourish VC and Better Capital, Inc 42 reports said this week.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

That’s the opinion of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which earlier this week said technology would be one of the underpinnings of getting lending to increase to SMEs, a group that would naturally benefit from improved access to capital. banking system needs a bit of jostling. In the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

We took that feedback to heart and have invested in both the infrastructure and the human capital to deliver on it.”. Based throughout Northern California, the consultant team will be led by Jim Pelka, who is joining the bank as head of Treasury Management Solutions, reporting to Chief Lending Officer Scott Myers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

An Egyptian firm landed the MENA region’s largest-ever seed round, a California company proved U.S.-based based alternative small business lending isn’t dead with investors and an India startup landed more than half a billion dollars. based Steadview Capital, adding to the previous Series A round announced in April.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2020

With social distancing and an economic downturn the new reality for many markets around the world, venture capital is expected to slow significantly. bank technology firm securing $100 million to expand in the region. Plus, an accounts payable technology company announced a $127 million equity round. KarbonCard.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

Creation of the new unit would be part of a much larger overhaul of the financial technology company and subject to approval by Chinese authorities, who pulled the plug on the company’s massive initial public offering late last year, according to Bloomberg. Ant currently has two lending units that handle consumer loans, Huabei and Jiebei.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

This week's look at the latest in bank-FinTech collaborations explores how a range of banks is turning to partners and API connectivity to enhance small business services, from lending to payments. app-first bank Atom is also collaborating with the company to enhance its own small business lending workflows.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Rather, the difference could be seen in just how significantly technology disruption has slammed its way into bankers’ discussions regarding shareholder value. The grassroots of community and regional banking will no longer be vanilla operations geographically focused. and a trailblazer in the world of banking as a service (BaaS).

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The company provides customers with trust system and identity solutions to aid in the areas of eCommerce and lending, particularly in terms of credibility. The region also experiences some of the highest fraud rates, in both finance and eCommerce. percent of web-sourced revenue in the region is lost to fraud, according to CyberSource.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

Each week, PYMNTS will round up some of the latest initiatives from governments, banks and FinTechs around the world to lend support for small businesses struggling as a result of the coronavirus. to help bailing out their SMB customers, with some regional financial institutions (FIs) already taking action. Fed Calls On Small Banks.

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Chris Skinner

MAY 10, 2017

London has been leading the charge to be the FinTech capital of the world, but many other cities are nipping at their toes. Here’s the summary: Financial Technology, more commonly referred to as FinTech, looks set to reshape the financial sector in the coming years and present Hong Kong with both challenges and opportunities.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

operations to PNC Bank , creating the fifth-largest regional player in the U.S. Firms with strong balance sheets, he said, have been in a position of strength to capitalize on select opportunities. No matter the size of the bank or the regional focus, there’s a general realization that disruption is on the horizon.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Sterling Bancorp announced that it has launched its new Innovation Finance Group , and has tapped veteran technology bankers John Hoesley and Josh Roberts to lead it. Hoesley also previously led the midwest region for Silicon Valley Bank, and was a partner at Prism Capital, a middle-market provider of venture capital and mezzanine debt.

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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 4, 2014

But wait, ING Direct grew to $92 billion in assets until ING Group divested it to Capital One. Lending Club funded $5 billion in loans since its founding in 2007. How long before those corporate accounting system providers strike a deal with some regional or national bank to provide seamless views to corporate customers?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2019

Chinese social eCommerce platform Wanwu Xinxuan has raised $20 million in a Series B round of financing led by Fresh Capital, with participation from Redpoint China Ventures, according to Deal Street Asia. Launched in August 2018, Wanwu Xinxuan is an online retail platform selling children’s apparel, shoes and accessories.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

In addition, Pakistan’s Telenor Microfinance Bank unveiled a cross-border remittance service based on Alipay’s blockchain technology, Indonesia’s KinerjaPay notched an investment of $200 million from a construction firm in the region and mobile payments are on the rise in China.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

With the pandemic nudging businesses further into the digital payments realm, commercial card innovation is heating up to capitalize on the opportunity for adoption. As companies elevate their use of payroll cards, Galileo Financial Technologies is rolling out its own solution to facilitate employee compensation.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2018

Biz2Credit’s latest Small Business Lending Index found that loan approval rates at alternative lenders stagnated – and at credit unions, they actually fell. Thirty percent of small business loan applications at big banks got approved in May, according to Biz2Credit’s latest Small Business Lending Index.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

To that end, news came earlier this week in the United States that a dozen community and regional banks have formed a group aimed at exploring the opportunities amid FinTech offerings. This time around, Sweetbridge is using blockchain in a lending context.

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Abrigo

JULY 14, 2023

Takeaway 2 Do you have the right technology to efficiently generate strategic insights now and on an ongoing basis? Analysis should be performed on concentrations, as a percentage of capital, in terms of: (1) Collateral type such as multifamily, retail, office, etc. (2) Do you have the right technology? CRE concentration report.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

Because many banks are now producing below their cost of capital, growth further exacerbates their issues and drives them out of business (likely through a sale) faster. Without the windfall of profit accrued to banks in 2022 because of faster-than-expected rate increases, banks will need to be better allocators of capital.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Once again, the world’s alternative SMB lending industry regained the spotlight, with key deals in Asia and South America placing the industry in the top spot for this week’s B2B FinTech roundup. Alternative Lending. Find out who scored how much of the more than $75 million that made its way to B2B startups this week. CapitalBay.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

With a goal of expanding its presence across the Nordic region, Enterpay, based in Finland, has raised new funding from NFT Ventures, the companies said Monday (Feb. Alternative Lending. Capital Float. million , India’s Zen Lefin, better known as Capital Float, will expand its abilities to lend to SMEs. Rippleshot.

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